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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Martha Graham

We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Creativity Lost Pattern Time Unique
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Action Energy Expression Force Life Quick Translation Unique
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Dance Exception Freedom Secret
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Connection Discover Earth Heaven Law Lying Movement
Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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Art Dance Essential Exception Live Memories Movement Photograph
Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Acceptance Age Glory Maturity Time
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion Technique
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dance Dedication Greatness Inspirational Passion
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Class Dance Learning Practice Yourself
Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Censor One Liner
The body says what words cannot.
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Body One Liner Word
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Beautiful Challenge Communication Dance Greatness Inevitable
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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Body Dance Joy Pain Song
You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance Inspirational Style Yourself
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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Choice Dance Life People Yourself
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Dance End Ideas Myself Pattern Start
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance Fall Inspirational Myself
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Act Expression Thinking True
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Adversity Fire Gold Man Test
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Life One Liner Respect Tree
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Area Athlete Dance God Learning Live Oneself Practice
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Alive Feeling Intense Myself People
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Business Compare Determination Direction Expression Value Yourself
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Children Darkness Time

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

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